Behaalotcha: Second Chances | Rabbi Ari Kahn June 12th 2025

Okay. Everything was going well until we get to Bahala. So, it's in this para that things it's it's in uh it's in this para that things don't work out. And I I'll put it like this. I've said this many times that if you want to remember this, especially if you're American, everything is good until you get to chapter 11. we get to chapter 11 is when they become uh right we'll remember that right that that's that that's where we become spiritually bankrupt that's where things deteriorate along the way again getting to that point there always seems to be this fascinating I'd almost call it a dance between the narrative and between the various mitzvot which are being introduced and that again is a part of the nature of Bameidbar and again in my I've said this many times and again in my opinion the mitzvot are always somehow connected to the narrative and especially as we get to the beginning of the para it's very clear because in this case the mitzvot are ones which are necessary in order for us to be where we are and to go where we are going to which means it it is absolutely part of the story. So the other thing which is interesting is the sequence because we know that especially the first couple of uh pariote there is some intrigue regarding the sequence and uh when the book begins and we go a little bit backwards then we go forwards. So let's just as we say in Israel big right to to look at this in a in a very broad sense the book begins more or less second year first month second year second month again that that those that's the problem about that we're someplace between the first and the second and there are times that the first month is mentioned the times that the second month is mentioned but I can tell you one very specific date that we're going to get too. And that is that if you look on source number four, second year, second month, on the 20th of the month, it's at that point that the cloud went up. That's when that's when the movement begins. Which means that until this point they have been in this place roughly one year minus 10 days because the third month is where they arrive at Sai and now they they're in the second month 20th day of the month. So it's again it's roughly a year as I said more or less minus 10 days they uh they leave Sai. The time in Sai obviously has been an interesting time. It's been a time where things have not always worked out the way that they were supposed to. We went there apparently for one very specific reason and uh we ended up with some other things as well. Not just receiving the Torah or maybe even not just receiving the ten commandments but we also end up getting instructions to build a Mishkan building a Mishkan consecrating a Mishkan along the way we had some problems would right. So again, if we'll line it up, you have, you know, the things that go bad. You have the complaints along the way. You have the you have you have the agelu. And on the other hand, you have Mosha praying. And essentially, somehow we've gotten up to this point right over here. When we get to chapter 11, it's at that point that the full deterioration will take place. And then essentially the rest of the book is going to be about meandering and wandering and complaining and things not working out the way that they're supposed to. Which means if the purpose of this book is to get to the land of Israel so that I got bad news, they did not end up in the land of Israel. And quite the opposite. But but again from chapter 1 through chapter 10, the preparations are all there to go. But from chapter 11 till the end of the book, it's where we end up going every place. But and of course, the one that will catch our attention the most will be Schllock and the and the moraglin and so on. But as I said that that's just one really bad example of something else which is taking place over here. Now when I go back to the laws which are mentioned, there's one law which as I said a lot of it is going to be built into the narrative. There's going to be one which is essentially I would call it kendrical. Kendrical. It's a word. It is a It's a word. It's a word. I know. I know. It's a word. Based upon the calendar. Yes. Yes. There are other words for that also, but okay. So, let's try this again. This is shall we say born of the calendar. What happened? Well, if we are in the second year. Well, right over here. Excuse me. Yeah. I I I I can we close the door or deal with a radio on Okay, let's say. So here in chapter n we've gone to second year first month. Now first month is of course Nissan. So does anything happen right according to the calendar does anything happen in the month of Nissan? So some of you if you are in yeshiva will say yes Benazman happens in Nissan but what what what else happens in uh in Nissan and Bazman means that you're off. You don't have to do anything. Why? What? Why? Because so you're off. You don't have to do anything. For some people though, there's some other pressures that are involved in Isan. And I know you've been wanting to say it already since I mentioned it. And that is of course Pesak. So now Pesak is coming up year number two, the one-year anniversary of leaving Egypt. And that itself is is interesting. Although it is not a given to me at this moment how and if Pesak should be celebrated at this point over here right now and you could say well why are you saying that go ahead ask why are you saying that why you saying that that's a really good question so give me give me a little bit and I'll try to explain why I'm saying that but nonetheless they're told over here by well first of all think about about it. They there was a thing called pesak mak is a complete outlier. It's completely different from other types of pesak, you know, instead of uh on yumto sitting back and um they traveled right just just go right there. They traveled on that first year in P. I mean, of course, they're right for traveling, but I'm just saying it's not the same as other PES. Was there an issue in PES? There should have been no iss but let's not get ahead of ourselves yet. This over here we had our first p. But what are we told back in parakeet in Schmote when we're told about Pak we're told when you come to the land then you're going to keep on doing this. So now do you understand my problem? We're missing something. What are we missing? So what can you do? I apologize for my Zionist uh tendencies where everything is seen through this light. But I want you to appreciate that actually is a problem. Which means if I were Mosher Rabenu and I'm not told specifically that we should be celebrating Pesak right now I would have no idea especially I go back to Vayikra and I look in Emor it talks again about the agricultural aspects of the holiday and going into the spir then leading up to uh to Kagash and so on it all seems quite based upon the land of Israel. So the it's really should be what wins out nonetheless and here's the surprise God says as follows again we have the context the calendar that pes will be commemorated at its proper time so therefore by the I love that but what is missing by the way what's missing is the place what's missing the meaning you do any proper time even though you don't have the proper place so that that's interesting but again this emphasis in the proper time like with all the rules all the laws all the rights all the rituals and Moshe then relays the message okay we're doing it we're doing we are having and you know what that means so again everybody gets it it's great it's wonderful Good. It works. Excellent. But but you can imagine the mind is like matzah. You you imagine. Where's your imagination? You imagine it's like matzah. You can't imagine it's like a bagel that day. So here you also have as much as you have the emphasis mo here you have that emphasis bomu and bom they're coming over and saying hold it a second we can't do it today which and again I don't know I don't know how much time they had to prepare for this right where I I know you can come and tell me But you know they had 30 days. No, I don't know how much time they were told you're going to have pesak this year. So therefore here's the trick question. If I were to ask you so what is pesak sheni? Well the first pesak sheni is the pesak sheni which they do in the second year. This is the pesak sheni right and and that's the surprise is that there is meaning the first surprise is there is such a thing as peseni but that pesak sheni what's lacking what's lacking is place. What do you have? You have time. So you can have time without place and that seems to be enough to work. Now these people said but we're t and made so we're t we can't do it today we can't do it on the right day and this bothers them have to see the trop here properly and it sounds very very clear that we're the saying is we don't want to be left out of this service of serving God. And let's think about it for a moment. Pak one can argue is the ritual which creates amusel. I mean beforehand were a bunch of tribes who go down. I mean at which point do we become amusel? Again you can cla you could claim haren. I am fine with that. But on the other hand god moved it up a little bit and says no I have a mitzvah for you do. Go ahead, bring the Corbin Pak. And that collective experience, the Corbin Pesak is something which is uniting and is something which becomes this really p powerful movement which we look moment that we look back on every year and it to certain extent it's a moment where Claol is created and they say we don't want to be left out of this. So we understand that there now is an issue. Right. So, we can't do this. Moshe says to them, "Right, stay here. Stand and I will hear what God commands you." I don't know if you feel it or you hear it, but there seems to be that Moshe is kind of moved away a little bit from this. He goes right where he says again, I'll hear which again tell everybody which adds in another element which actually will make the law a little bit more practical also moving forward in the future. that what happens if somebody is or somebody isn't disposed they're far away. What the how far far is is discussed in the missionar. So then instead of the first month they'll do it in the second month and when you do it in the second month you'll lead it with mat again no no statement about which is interesting because now now I'll say it again we have three different pes you have pes you have the regular pes and now you have pes sheni so or this other type of pesi which is actually in kazal it's called sometime kan or or other words for katan or sometimes used. It's a small pesh. Why is it a small pes? It's one day and it's not seven days. Why is it a a minor pes? Because not all the laws apply to it. And it says that you'll eat the corban together with mats because that's how you eat it. Which is again very similar to that original. You can do it the same way, which means what you're doing over here is the carbon. So do you realize what just now happened? And I'll finish the if you like. So we just now within a verse or two receive two messages. One message is that there is this wonderful idea and concept that if you miss the corbin pes you can have a makeup you know in Israeli universities there's a concept which is called mob mob pesi that's that's the moed bet although there's actually an interesting m we'll see if we get to it exactly how pesak sheni works but again I can be very lazy intellectually right now and say okay pesak sheni is the moide bed Again, that's the moed and now is the moed bet. Mo. So, this is the time that you do. But we also heard something else. Oh, yeah. By the way, if you don't fulfill this, then you're the of being cut off from the people was not mentioned before as far as I remember. Which means we just got this on the one hand. You got an extension, right? Imagine this. The teacher says, "I can't take the final fine." You got an extension. But if you don't take the extension, if you don't take the final the second time, you don't take the MOA bed or you fail the MOE bed, you're failing, right? Just don't think that there's no consequences over here. On the one hand, you got the extension. On the other hand, you have uh also this finality about it. It um it continues and it says really spreading this out that the PES is the unifying factor of the Jewish people and God understands the emotional need that these people have. Again, you can tell me religious need, but I'll call it an emotional need that these people have to wanting to be part of the people. Even if they can't do what the people did when the people did it, they still want to be able to feel that they're part of the people and God allows this to happen. Now that there's all kinds of elements about this which don't seem to make very much sense. Uh I want to start with the Moshe says in source two what's God is going to say to you right what what the discourse will be he he feels what I felt or maybe I feel what he felt and maybe I feel what I felt because of what he felt and that's why I feel it but he's not the only A lot number of the commentaries feel this that Mosha's expression over here seems to almost be disassociating himself from the situation. And uh it sounds like Moshe knows that they will be told that no you can't do this. This it just doesn't work that way. And Mo Mosha is absolutely convinced that listen you missed it. You missed it again. He says So he learns it from this in before I get read the I I want to I want to say something which occurred to me on Monday. I started late this week, right? I was traveling back. I had to get up very early on uh Sunday morning. I got up at I don't want to say an ungodly hour because that's fra uh but I but I got up around 3:30 4:00 a.m. in order to get a flight from Dallas to New York and then another flight from New York to Israel and after the various delays and so on and so forth so forth by the time I got back on Monday. So I started my you can say why didn't you do it on the plane but I had two days of dafomi on the plane and two days of miomi on the plane and two days of mishnomi on the plane and uh and I was very tired I I I came to the decision or the conclusion that the most heroic thing a Jew can do is to wake up after two hours of being exhausted and pull themselves out and start diving shak when it's like 11 o'clock at night as far as you're concerned right that I think it's the most heroic thing in the world and not call for a minion to do this by yourself going for minion is terrible um Yeah. So I started on Monday morning and I started going through Shikar and and as I'm reading this and thinking about this. So the the what are we told? We're told that the cloud lifts up in the second months and the 20th day. But why the second month and the 20th day? So obviously the cloud waited for Pesak Sheni. So what would have happened if they never made this request? Are you with me on this? What would have happened if they didn't make this request? So then they would have had the second Pak in the desert and then they would have uh and then the cloud presumably would have lifted up maybe not the 20th because maybe Pak needed to be seven days so maybe the 20 22nd 23rd 24th which means what what I'm saying is we lost a month so on the one hand it's really nice because of Pesak Sheni but there was a price to be paid the price was paid we lost a month and now you start thinking so what are the implications of that month moving down so I'm just I'm not going anywhere with that right now I'm just throwing this out as a as a thought that when they make this request and God says, "Sure, let's do this another month." So that means they stay arguably at least they stay by Senai for a mother another month and the whole thing gets delayed. You know what? Let me do this a little differently. What would have happened if they never sinned with the golden calf? What would have happened when Moshe comes down from her? Presumably, they would have gone to Israel much quicker. And then presumably where would they have celebrated Pak the second year which which means every time there's a delay right it's like these people who make their aliyah plans all the delays are great and all the delays are necessary and all delays are going to make your aliyah so much better but how many delays every delay has an implication to it and that and and that's going to be that there's going to be a delay and it's going to be another month and then maybe another year and then another decade and then something else happens and then so on and so forth and so on that uh my parents wanted to make aliyah when they were young except my father's an only child and my mother was an only daughter which is the same thing as being an only child and uh and it ended up that they didn't make aliyah until their parents are no longer with them and that you know many many many many years go by and when we made aliyah I don't know you know this we had our wedding we had our last chevra on the way to the airport and uh we didn't wait for anybody to uh to get old. We we we left. And again, each time there is a delay, even for a good reason, there's something nonetheless, which bothers me in the back of my mind over here. And now I go back and I think about this. Okay, so the cloud lifted second month, 20th day, but was that the original plan? It certainly can't be the original plan. It can't be. Can't be the original plan. I'm saying before and so on. It can't be the original plan. Don't don't ask me for proof. I can't prove it. It can't be the original plan. What would this have happened had there not been a request to do uh what which means it's why isn't a month it's because because is a month of redemption. That's why right we have good we we have we have we have redemptive days in let's look at the for a second now by the way this is back per right where we started right which right because there is this intrigue in regarding you know different times and it's not in the right sequence. Why didn't we start with perket? Because perket is the earliest date which is given in the book of bidbar. So book of should have begun in the beginning of paral this is the earliest chronological date in the book and it says because there's negativity which is going to take place. right now you see who actually says this clearly that when we think about right and now I'm going to refer to the original pesi meaning the second pesak the pesak will be here in the desert and he's noticing and he's noting and he's correct what he's saying is that as far as we knew looking at parad we're told you're going to celebrate this in leaving Egypt pes mim and then when you going to celebrate this you're going to celebrate this as free people in your land again. So it's interesting because I could have filled in the blank in other sins. I could have said maybe the as I already did. I could have said there are other things that happened before this. They were supposed to already right you say want to say hey or is that's the little uh it's probably not hey good by the way what ruins because then you're waiting till after if it wouldn't have waited till after and they're going to come in then it could have been any day in but he says that they would have gone so he's again looking post right post post already on the 20th month Now it's time to go. Now we're going. But what happens? That's the Midton. And they start complaining about the food that they're getting in the desert. And by the way, what's the answer to them? What's the best answer to them? Shut up. Let's go to Israel and we'll uh we'll be eating from the from the fruit of the land of Israel. What's the matter with you people? Right. We we we're we're right there. Why in the world right now you're complaining? Listen, I haven't had a good meal in a while. Stop it. So I'm just saying there's something and where does that happen? Of course, chapter 11. That's parakeet olive. That's where that's where things deteriorate. So again, we can read a little bit more of this, but I'm I'm just pointing it out is that they and this deteriorates to the point that okay, you're going to have seven days for Miriam. So you start think, oh, they have to wait seven days for Miriam. That's also the sweet para. So okay, another seven days. Yes. another seven days and then another this and then another this and then another this and then finally you're going to get to the moraglin and then you're going to get another which means each thing adds on more time and more time and more time and again if you're going to look at this from a Zionist lens every single moment should be we are not supposed to be here yes I don't know if this will have any impact on anybody outside of this room but there should be this very powerful thought we are not supposed to be here. We're supposed to be the land of Israel. That's the land that God promised to us. That's where we're supposed to be going to. And every moment that we're complaining or this and now I'm even suggesting, if you're hearing me, I'm even suggesting even saying, hold it. We missed the Corbin Pesak. So, hold it a second. Which Corbin Pesak did you miss? You missed the Corbin Pesak in the in the desert. We're going to do a Corbin Pesak in Eric Israel very, you know, very very soon. You could be the first guy over there to be in the Corbin Pesak. But none so even you know looking for religious purposes to be outside. I know that this sounds very strange what I'm saying because hold it you should all be yelling at me. Hold it. God approved. So why are you why are you giving it a hard time? And I'm going to say God approved. Yes, God approved you can do it and there's and this is wonderful but I'm still looking at my not just the calendar. I'm looking at the days and the weeks and the months and the years going by and something is not working out the way that it's supposed to. And this also contributes to it whether you like it or not. This is yet going to be another reason why the aliyah date is being uh delayed. So are we uh good now? We're good. So what we saw from the nitiv was he feels that Moshe is kind of uh doesn't believe that this is really what's going to happen. The the target mukas leonatan the pseudo yonatan we'll just read six in Hebrew. You notice again he doesn't translate word for word. If you want to know the again the was there's not so many words in that and he writes in the is one of the things Neimon that he's going to have Mosha's response to the various requests dependent upon the type of law and see here's a sensitive point why doesn't Moshe know these laws you can go like this if God taught Moshe all the Torah bei so why doesn't Moshe know this now of course you can say that God taught Torah Mosh msai and he taught him the general things and he didn't teach him this specific law yet pesak sheni wasn't learned yet so he didn't know pesak sheni there are those who are going to have a maximalistic position position about what was matan torah and therefore be troubled that Moshe doesn't know it which sounds to be the direction that he's going in over here. It's almost like he is saying that Moshe kind of makes believe he doesn't know what the law is and it says that Moshe wants to teach judges or Sanhedrin on how to respond in the future. He wants to teach them a lesson that when it comes to certain types of laws, you need to be very quick. When other laws, you need to do it slowly. And don't be afraid to ask when you're not sure about something. And therefore, essentially, he just now turned something Moshe doesn't know. He's turning this whole thing into a uh an educational opportunity, a learning moment that Moshe could teach people how they're supposed to approach problems. But it sounds to me at the very end that he backs off from this a little bit and he ends up really saying that Moshe doesn't necessarily know. But as I said, it is intriguing. I I can actually look at all the cases that Moshe says he doesn't know. And I believe that if you look at them carefully, you may be able to put forth an argument that in each one of these cases that Moshe may have had a a personal what we would call a niga, a personal issue why he felt it was more appropriate to come from God. If you want me to take one example, I could take the example of the male. There's a great rashi there that says the male was a son of the mitzvah that Moshe killed. How did Mosha kill him? Rashi writes back in Schmo that he used Sham Hashem. So Mosha uses Sham Hashem and kills this guy's father. He uses Sham Hashem and Moshe wants him arrested. So now it's not appropriate for Mosha to say, "Okay, based on you're going to be killed." Moshe goes, "Okay, okay, let me pull off and let God determine what exactly the could be." And I'm going to say it again. I think that if you look at all the cases, one can put forth these kinds of arguments on why Moshe. There were also issues immediately afterwards regarding Moshe asking regarding his own inher certain inheritance issues over there and there are also other ways that people try to nuance that but I'm going to say it again. I think that one could if one works one could put forth this kind of uh argument. Rashi writes in source number seven, why should we not be involved in this mitzvah, and then he writes, "And it was appropriate that this law be taught by Moshe." Now, Rashi is telling us something here. What Rashi is saying is that these people who were involved in this, again, he doesn't spell it out. He says, he goes, "These people are uh are positive people. It's not just zakay that they're innocent. It's much more than that. It's that they are doing something which is positive." Till uh way too late last night, I was by a meeting from the rabbis of Zaka, which I'm involved in. And uh this is a good for Zaka. Why? Because why were these people uh why were they tame? because they were being made mitzvah. So somebody's being os and made mitzvah. So then you say ah you did a mitzvah made mitzvah you're in the kadisha you're dealing with dead bodies you're doing something which needs to be done and now what's the consequences? Oh, guess what? You can't bring the corbin you you're you're you're right. You're you're you're outside of the community and the Moshan from the and he cites meaning Moshe should have been the one to teach this like all the other laws but So they're the so of course there is some kind of over here and therefore the law of somebody who's tame and can't do the mitzvah they get this second chance. So therefore this becomes again really interesting also goes along the line of comparing this to the other cases there is this little sting against Mosha that he forgot the law over here there's no such uh comment [Music] gives a reason that kind of like Moshe was punished and therefore he forgot this but over here there's no such comment. So I just want to read a little bit further by the third line end of the line. There's a logical reason to say and by the way you can go back a step if you want to logical reason to say that a girl a daughter should uh inherit in every case. But to say that there's no son and therefore the daughter should inherit. He goes that's a that's logical makes a lot of sense. The daughter should be before other people who are further related. And and people without Torah see this as being a logical law. that uh that a child in e either male or female should inherit and other people other nations understand this and since Moshe forgot something which was inherently logical that's why they're discerning that there's a problem over here sorry he goes on the other hand to say ah you don't have you'll have You don't have it this month, you'll do it ne next month. Nobody could have made up that law by themselves. That requires a tradition. Whoever would have said no logic is that you do the next month and therefore he's not knowing this. There's nothing negative. Okay. Come up with a reason. Now, first I want to first I just want to note something and I want to say it a little bit stronger than he said it. It's not just that inheritance of a daughter has very good logic to it. It's that the bringing of a corban after you miss the time is anti- Torah logic over corbono. you missed the time, you can't bring the garban there's and there really should be no discussion. Which means of course Mosher Rabenu who receives Torah misi understands perfectly well that if somebody says listen I can't bring the Corbin on the right day okay you can't bring the Corbin that's all right it doesn't somebody calling up the rabbi and say listen I can't I really can't do pesak this year um uh and it comes out on Tuesday night you know can I do this on Thursday instead there are these great uh I don't know if you know this a lot of uh people have uh sa corporate saters other saters in uh in America and they they pick a date which is convenient for everybody then they have some kind of a of a seder which is taking place. So okay, it's whenever it works out on the calendar. It it doesn't work that way. So to say that why doesn't Moshe logically infer and understand that of course there should be a pesak sheni. What's the answer? Because of course there shouldn't be a pesi. Pesak sheni doesn't make any sense. So let's try to go down this path for a moment. First of all, the Gmorra in source number 10, it tells us, okay, that should tell us now something about that there should be very specific times and so on. Okay, that's exactly the point. You missed the time, it's over. Oil or perhaps that because prayer is essentially an expression of call anytime that you want because it's essentially praying is something which is of how shall we say it? It's made of compassion. the on the next on the one hand you say that it comes from the so there's two different sides of where comes from one says it comes from from the so therefore from or from says no they're all connected to the to the corbanote so what's really going to be the difference between the two of The difference is going to be if something is based exclusively on a corban what would you say but if something is based on the avote then what are the avote the avote essentially are this element of raim so therefore there should be this ability to make up its fil and if you follow this I believe there's a toast that says this I believe also says it what I'm about to say and therefore you can make up you could twice you miss right you miss out but if you is musf then you can't make up mus why can't you make up musf because it's only based on a corban it's not based upon the avote if it's only based on a corban so what's the principle armano corbano once you miss the time then you can't possibly make it up and I'm going to say it again and that becomes perfectly logical and then you follow with the pesi so therefore pes sorry with the pes so you miss the pesak then there should be no ability whatsoever to make it up you can look at rolv source 12 when you have time and you can He's going along those same lines in source 13. This is where it's bold. Why doesn't say yeah the people are right? No. Right. Remember yes are right. Why doesn't it say here the same thing? Yes these people are right. What's the reason? because they're not right. They're not right. This doesn't work. This doesn't work in terms of logic. There's no there's no argument. It's said if you're not included, you miss the date. That's it. You were a librarian, right? What happens when you have an overdue book. You have an overdue book. That's all. That's that that's what happens. You you you can't do anything about it. So, here it doesn't say they're right. a new law is introduced that nearly and it seems to me see I I I can pick on this a little bit. I can argue with he says that they knew they would when they when they became they knew they would not be able to do the pes but this is dependent on something. What's it dependent on when God told Moshe that they're going to have a pes or second pes which means if God said it to Moshe the day before then they didn't necessarily know if they became five days before. So is not necessarily uh again simple. Nonetheless, what they were doing was correct to do. Meaning they knew it's the right thing to do. You find again, right? People from it's the right thing to do. I remember I said before it's emotional. They saw everybody else is involved and they can't be involved. So, it's it's hurtful. It's hurtful to be and then in pain they said wh why are we being excluded right now is that's the is that they are not part of b is not it's not so much we can't of course you can't bring the carbon you miss the time you can't bring the carbon you can't bring the carban so we'll skip a little bit over here Good. We'll skip we'll skip a lot if you want. Source number 17 is really where he got that line from mitzvah in the glor if you remember that's where they have the the of certain people certain people are exempt they don't have to do and essentially this is the mitzvah and along the way it asks do we really learn it from here. Forget what the here is. No, we learn it from someplace else. As we learned in the [Music] there were people who were impure because they became involved in taking care of the dead and it asks so who are these dead people and it answers as the first answer. So his name is Rabioce Agile. So who is he going to say? It's the hint. No, show Yoseph. Didn't we talk about the Aaron of Yoseph not so long ago? What was that a couple weeks ago? So, you know, you know, we can't let go of Yoseph. We're back to Yoseph again. And he and and Yoseph Glee says, "Oh, why are they?" Because they're carrying Yoseph's remains. By the way, who was the first one who was carrying Yoseph's remains? Mosher Rabenu. So, now you see that Mosha also has some kind of involvement in this as well. Just in case you didn't see that coming, there are different opinions. They were know that theoretically they should have been able to become to her by this point those other ones and therefore he says no it must have been some other stam mitzvah good points this out in source 18 commenting on the garra what are you talking about there's hundreds of thousands of uh how many Jews 600,000 men he goes of course there are people dying all the time unfortunately That's just statistics. And therefore, of course, there's going to be uh some kind of a make mitzvah. Source 22 is where the garur is going to present a couple of different opinions regarding what is the nature of pesi. And the only thing I'll say about this now is that for all the people who love to give a bar mitzvah drussa during the omare that if somebody became bar mitzvah during the omar you continue counting not continuing counting they should have instead gone to this kumar because it's a bet it's a better sugia it's a better first of all it's not made up by secondly it's it's a gar itself rebby says if you miss the corbin the is by both. So again, it's not a simple thing because it looks like is only it looks like it's only written by the if you didn't do the sh and they all follow their own opinion because we learn if somebody converts between first p and the second pan a kid who became mitzvah between the two. So now you actually have a gamorrah dealing with this question of what happens to somebody between again between okay rebi said so therefore hold it this person was not by the so he sees as a replacement for the whether you were obligated for the first one or not you again you can only take the mo if you were already in the class by moed olive Right. He thinks it's a completely separate reg. It's a new holiday. Completely separate holiday. It makes up for it. And I'm not going to get into all of the explanations of this. There's a rashi explaining it. There's a shalomi as well in 24 that asks the great question what happens if God allows the building of the beta mikdash between we all didn't bring the rishon do we all bring if the mikdash is built great if you want I'll read a couple words of that then he's saying that by definition is never for the by the way what's the for us today all these people who think that you shouldn't shouldn't say is not a holiday of the it's only a holiday of so therefore of course you should say what I'm just saying it doesn't say it in the completely made up and and and whoever whoever is there if somebody starts it's okay it's pakshi okay and therefore you're supposed to finish the argument out and there and and therefore And therefore what? So again just just notice the he says no. So you can say no and he brings some proof. No does bring it. But uh so good. So if the make sure we built then we wouldn't say because we'd all be bringing but I'll I'll say it again is one of these things that nobody says. And by the way what's the minhug when there's an argument of what's the minhug? The min is to fight. But what's the but but what's but what's actually should the be yeah for going to most people it's not an absolute obligation and fighting is worse than saying or not saying someone doesn't want to say don't say you want to say nothing's going to happen but again if you want if you want you know pure I have to qualify this litfisher thinking you should say on if you're of course you shouldn't say why So of course you shouldn't say it. So there's no there's really uh Yeah. Why not? What? Why not? Why do you need it? Why not? But but once the Bay was built, you can still bring Obama or what? I don't think they were they used to whatever they were. Really? I don't know. Really? No. I'm asking that's what it says where but no the only reason it's interesting there's somebody who's gonna there's somebody who may listen to the share who's trying to convince me recently of the same thing he sent me an article and I read through the whole article and the earliest source that claimed this was like a 19th century source I would have been what you're saying they all did the of course I mean that's the Mishna zfta it says there were three kabu wrote they would come in and they one after the other was the busiest We actually have evidence of this from outside sources of people who came and saw the Algel. Of course they did a new in in the in on the harabay. Yes. Well, I'm saying it's a Mishna. So don't look the question would be that once there's a then were they allowed to build could you build can you build them as bayak or not? There's a great book by the or book. What's it called? It's called binansion. Why is it called bignyans? Because the first couple of chot are about build bring the corbaz again 19th century was very much we're going back to Israel and so on all religious people were going back and can we bring the cores now. So he there's the whole back and forth over there and that's why he called his book bignyan. Anyway, can we go on in um in source 25? It talks a bit more again about the Jews leaving Egypt and Moshe taking the atmosphere. Vik I am around 12 lines down. I'll count if you need. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 only nine lines down middle line's remains went with them traveled with them for 40 years. You said to your brothers that I will take care of you. I'll bring you food. I'll take care and so on. that now they're gonna have to take care of you and they're going to carry your remains for 40 years. Yseph is the man. So this madrash is really very specific that the merit of having is all about. So now let's finish this up. Source 26 and 27 will just quote little parts of what I just now read. So let's stay in this midrash and let's try to understand the midrash. What is pesi? The answer, it's a second chance. It's a second chance that goes against logic. It's a second chance that goes against. You want a fancy word for this? I already gave you one good word today. This is antonyomian. Goes. Yes. You should use it. It's good. This is antonyomian. It goes against the law norms. It goes against the normal law. the way it goes against what's so this breaks rules. This is not the way it should be. I'm going to say it again now. Mosherenu I'm I'm overstating this. Mosher Rabenu could not teach. Why? Because Mosha is Torah. Torah is Mosha is truth. And what's truth? There are laws. Moshe learned all of and Mosha knows the rules. He knows the principles. You can't bring a corb after its right time. What a pes is. By the way, the kdish over here was you can even bring it outside of its place. The place should have been you can only bring in the land of Israel, maybe only in the Mishk and only in the beta mikdash. But here we're told, okay, so here we are. We're traveling along the way. We're going to do it here as well. Wow, that that itself is already radical. Moshe is not going to argue with God. What are you talking about? How can you say such a thing? Okay, God can say such a thing. But then when the people complain, but we're out of the community because we're to but it's better than that. We're out of the community according to the midrash and it's one of the opinions in the gam we're out because we were carrying Yoseph. Now think a second about this and it goes back once again to the sensitivity about somebody being so who the person who they try to throw who was the one they try to get rid of they try to get rid of Yseph. How do they try to get him Yseph? Well, they thought about killing him. They thought about selling him and and so on. Which means Yoseph is the one who and what does Yoseph do? Yoseph now holds on to his brothers and says again many many years later I will take care of you. Why? Because we are family. By the way, this is a second chance. This is the core of the second chance. Just because we've gone through some what word do you want to use? Dysfunctionality. Just because things have not worked out the way that they were supposed to in a family, families sometimes are messy and sometimes things don't work out the way they're supposed to. And nonetheless, there's going to be a second chance over here. And Yoseph's articulation of this second chance is I will take care of you. Why? Because you're my brothers, your family. So once this happens, the guy who was kicked out of the Mahan, and now he nonetheless says, but I will take care of you. I'm not going to hold a grudge. So now the people who were carrying Yoseph and now they're outside of the M no there's something wrong over here which means it's the of Y which then creates and now if you go one step further hold it but what happens we said that the only ones that you can the only holidays sorry I have to say this again the prayers that you can make up are the ones based on the avot the ones that you can't make up are based upon the corbanote but what happens when you have a cororban which is based upon one of now you have to be careful Yoseph is not one of the avot. But what is he called? What does Yakov call him? He calls him Evan Israel. And what does Rashi say on Evan Israel? A ven that Yoseph is both a father and he's a son. Yseph is this again? He functions as the firstborn. What does the firstborn do? He takes care of all of the younger ones. Which means Yoseph is this figure. He's the only one of the brothers by the way who dies in Beresit because he's part of the avot. On the other hand, he dies again in Shimote because he's one of the banim is. So therefore, if y is the one because of his compassion and he's not going to bear a grudge and he's going to bring the people together and there's not going to be a situation that he's going to say, well, I was the and now I'm throwing all of you out because all of you are irrelevant to me. Quite the opposite. I will take care of you. So the bis of Yoseph taking care of them we get the corbin pes which means the corbin pes is also based on I'll call it one of the actions of theote and just like based on that's then you can make it up now you realize the pesi is based upon it's based upon yse and therefore you can make it up which means mohea couldn't have taught this law because it's not it's not part of the realm of corbanote yose is the one who ends up according to the midrash is the catalyst for this law because this is really all about Yoseph and therefore again this picture that some of the commentaries Midrashim and the Gomorrah see that they're the ones carrying Yoseph and now they're outside of the camp that just doesn't ring right that doesn't work this is not right there has to be some other level and therefore turn to God and Moshe is like saying he's disassociating and oh no this doesn't make sense this is not law and God says yeah it's not law but sometimes we need rahim And in this particular case of we're going to bring people together. We're going to create community even a second chance to create community. And therefore we're able to have a holiday of second chances. And if some of you don't want to say there I absolve I absolve you from on that day.